Chinese New Year Service: Strong Faith Allows Great Freedom

Luke 10:2
- We are sent out as messengers/laborers

Luke 10:5; 10:9
- Be a blessing to the lost

Luke 10:9
- Share the Word

Evangelism to friends

1. Bless them
- To bless means to speak well them and encourage them

2. Fellowship with them
- Even Jesus got into Peter's world and not to mention the tax collectors and prostitutes

3. Look for a need
- Everybody's got a need somewhere

Acceptance does not mean approval

1 Timothy 4:1-6
- Legalism: doctrines of the demons

Romans 14:1-2
- The strong: More liberated
- The weak: Tend to live by rules and regulations

Strong faith allows great freedom so in whatever we do, we must do it in faith and in obedience to the Holy Spirit.

God is more forgiving than we give Him credit for.

egs.

Martin Luther: He drank alcohol and tends to crude remarks

Charles Spurgeon: Smoke a cigar once a day

C.S. Lewis: Was a chain smoker

Weekend Service: 3 Most Basic Keys of Success

Matthew 16:22-24
- Get a revelation of who we are & where our authority comes from

James 1:22-24

1. Power of Revelation
- Noot good enough to hear from God the whats, but also to hear Him say when.

2. Power of Visualization
- If you can't see it, you can't have it
- Starts in the realm of imagination
- Ephesians 3:20

3. Power of Confession
- life & death are in the power of the tongue
- Gen 1

• The Holy Spirit was hovering /waiting for God to speak the word before getting into action
• Psalms 33:6

- Get a rhema to fight the devil/demons & break the bondage to get breakthrus

Hebrew 11:1
2 levels of faith

1) I need to touch to receive things (women with the issue of blood)
2) Roman centurion kind of faith

Hebrew 11:3
- You words frame your reality

2 Corinthians 4:13
- I believe, therefore I spoke

CG Sermon: Growing From Excellence To Greatness

Evaluate current positions.

Psalm 37:23

1. Friendships

1 Cor 15:23

2. Level of Knowledge

- Knowledge -> Responsibilities -> Authority

- Crisis is a positive. Brings you up to another level

- Crisis reveals preference or conviction?

Proverbs 24:10

- Knowing the truth sets you free

3. Level of Responsibility

a) Little things
b) Money
c) That which belongs to another man

Matthew 35:14-16; 20-21

- Be faithful in little things. Be a good steward in all areas of our lives

- The enemy of success is comnplacency